To bring and keep Europe at the forefront of the AI and machine learning revolution, the ELISE consortium works in close collaboration with the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) to make it possible for the best basic research to be performed in Europe and create impact and jobs. A growing network of 70 partners including 23 organizing nodes implements activities to attract and enable top-level researchers, create regional ecosystems around leading AI research, and bring Europe's leading AI lighthouses together, leveraging excellence and diversity to make Europe a natural choice for world’s best researchers in the field.
To achieve this, ELISE selected the following actions:
- Establish a network of excellent researchers and laboratories that act as local anchors across Europe and represent the community, provide experts within society, and coordinate a joint effort across the continent.
- Build an attractive training network for junior scientists that keeps them in Europe, by offering the highest quality training for Academic Excellence in Machine Learning.
- Make the industry involved with elite academic research so that participating companies’ competencies will rival those of large industry laboratories
- Establish a sustainable ecosystem of machine learning stakeholders covering the value network to facilitate and accelerate a broad integration of machine learning technologies.
Conclusions:
ELISE has ensured the sustainability of the network by helping the ELLIS Society to establish a new organizational structure, called ELLIS Areas. ELLIS Areas has been established as a permanent organisation, with committees in charge of ELLIS’s AI/ML Research Programs; PhD. program; membership; fundraising; and collaboration with other NoEs and entities (e.g. Adra-e).
ELISE helped the ELLIS network to grow to 41 units (up from 34 in 2022), 1 associated unit, and 16 Research Programs (up from 11 in 2020).
ELISE has established the unique and highly successful ELLIS PhD. Programme, which will carry on now that ELISE has concluded.
ELISE has built a large stakeholder network of researchers, policy makers and industry.
ELISE has supported 32 SMEs, which have produced innovate results that have the potential to benefit wider society.
